GOP’s Jim Jordan finds yet another investigation to investigate

When Charles Littlejohn worked as a contractor at the Internal Revenue Service, he abused his position, accessed Donald Trump’s tax records, and leaked them to The New York Times. The Justice Department investigated, found the culprit, and charged him with unauthorized disclosure of tax information.

Littlejohn ultimately pleaded guilty, and federal prosecutors sought the statutory maximum of five years in federal prison. Two weeks ago, a judge agreed, and the defendant received exactly the sentence the Justice Department wanted to see. (The jurist who agreed to the statutory maximum sentence, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden.)

In general, Republicans haven’t had much to say about this story, because it doesn’t advance any of the right’s preferred narratives. The Biden administration’s Justice Department didn’t shrug off the case because Trump was the victim; prosecutors did the opposite, taking the case seriously and pursuing it with vigor, without regard for party.

For all the talk about a “weaponized” DOJ, and rascally Democrats politicizing federal law enforcement, the prosecution of Charles Littlejohn added fresh evidence to the fact that GOP claims about a “two-tiered” justice system are nonsense.

But — and you had to know a “but” was coming — some Republicans don’t quite see it this way. In fact, as the conservative Washington Times reported, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has opened an investigation into the investigation.